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Claytonia perfoliata

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Name

Identification
Claytonia parviflora Douglas ex Hook. [family PORTULACACEAE ] Claytonia perfoliata Torr. [family PORTULACACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Claytonia cupulata
  • Claytonia sp.
  • Limnia diaboli
  • Claytonia perfoliata
  • Claytonia parviflora
  • Claytonia involucrata
  • Limnia guadalupensis
  • Limnia cuprea
Common name
  • Cushion miner’s-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Indian-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Miner’s-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Madrean miner’s-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Intermountain miner’s-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4
  • Mojave Indian-lettuce, Flora of North America Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Claytonia parviflora Douglas ex Hooker [family PORTULACACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 4,
Names
Claytonia parviflora Douglas ex Hooker [family PORTULACACEAE], Fl. Bor.-Amer., 1: 225, plate 73. 1832
Claytonia perfoliata Donn ex Willdenow var. parviflora ( Douglas ex Hooker) Torrey [family PORTULACACEAE]
Montia perfoliata (Donn ex Willdenow) Howell var. parviflora (Douglas ex Hooker) Jepson [family PORTULACACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
John M. Miller
Information
Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. Stems 5–30 cm. Leaves: blades green or pink, not glaucous; basal leaves petiolate, blade linear (sometimes filiform), narrowly lanceolate, spatulate, or rhombic, 1–15 × 0.5–1 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blade linear and 0.5–4 cm, or perfoliate and 10 cm or less diam. Inflorescences 1-bracteate; bract 0.5–15 mm, leaflike. Flowers 2–12 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–4 mm; petals white or pink, 2–8 mm; ovules 3. Seeds 1–2.5 mm diam., shiny and smooth or with low tubercles, not pebbly; elaiosome 1–3 mm. 2n = 12, 24, 36, 48.
Distribution
w North America.

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